and. as fran celebrates military success in mali we take a closer look at the possible complications the campaign could bring. egypt's military chief says his country is on the verge of collapse but says the army will stand firm as protesters ignore curfews and another night of violent anti regime protests. and president obama looks to police chiefs of the u.s. cities devastated by deadly mass shootings to support tougher gun control rules while many there still defend their right to bear arms.

it's five pm here in moscow you're watching archie live with me and he said now it's good to have you with us our top story this hour president francois long has held france's military intervention in mali as a success the malayan army has made big advances against islamist insurgents all with the assistance of french troops and earlier are to use tom barton told me about the progress made so far and the problems that have come with it. campaign starts with french troops about two and a half weeks ago sweeping up from the center of the country up to with these these islamist held areas meeting very little resistance really they are they go on there was an incident here in qana where in fact a french helicopter strike killed some civilians apart from that the french had been welcomed with with street parties and crowds coming out to greet the convoys

as they arrived in each of these towns the islamist militants retreating not wanting to stand and fight many people thinking that they have been retreating further into the deserts in the north there's only one town of appreciable size left to capture after the fall of of timbuktu without nearly without a shot fired and then it seems that the next stage of the operation will be to try and hunt out islamist militants who have gone to hide in the desert and many observers think that it's possible a guerrilla war may result in the desert there after that there is also increased involvement from other countries and ecowas force of west african troops about seven thousand five hundred of them are coming into mali to take over some garrison duties and steadily take over the fighting role from the french there's also been talk in brussels of e.u.

troops being sent to train some of the local soldiers and the u.k. has announced it's going to send a small force but then other soldiers also to protect those those troops sent to train local soldiers as well and the new house was already in van as well and it was there was absolutely so far the u.s. has been sending aerial support it's been sending transport planes refueling planes it seems now though it's reported that the u.s. may be in negotiations with an easier next to mali over the possibility. all of a drone base there and those drones flying from near the border with mali could take part in these operations to try and hunt out the most militants there there's also been talk of a u.s. base down in. the south of mali the details of that not really clear at the moment it is worth noting though that is very rich in natural

resources oil gold you rhenium and a lot of those exports go to france and the u.s. so we have talk of drones a u.s. base how far could this possibly spread. the question on many people's lips as the as the first phase of this operation winds up where are these militants going to go where is the violence going to go raising the fears that around the region this fighting as the militants are pushed out of the strongholds they've been in they could scatter all over the place and spread violence with them or it might be a fair argument then to say that the french might be getting a little bit ahead of themselves by claiming this is been a successful mission. the head of egypt's army is warning that the country is on the verge of collapse after almost a week of violent and rash between the government and opposition militias earlier the camera pushed through a lot giving the military the power of arrest while the president declared a state of emergency curfews in three provinces this was ignored by protesters who

took of the streets and mass across the country calling for regime change in cairo crowds crowds continued to clash with security forces leaving piles of burning debris in the streets there were no breakthroughs in a town at a compromise as the opposition ignored calls for a national dialogue by the president for dr saeed said dick a political sociologist at the american university in cairo says a settlement is nowhere to be seen. this of their logging was a president what what was called the national dialogue has been a failure and so do don't want to give the president. of a photo opportunity that they are all sitting and nothing happens there were many experiences in which opposition would say it was the government and the president agree on something and then after a while you'll find that there is no agreement and that is why the decided not to

join also the feel that the president and the government the current government is in top end and saudi looked want to give it a new lease of life or they need support so that the government becomes stronger so the future this is a time to persia talk as far as we can tell that we are using is going to be on syrian for some time before all parties realize that the cost of keeping this conflict is going to be too damaging for everybody once you all realize that nobody is going to be we know if this conflict continues then we will have democracy as long as everybody some people believe that we will be winning if we keep but personally and decision of the government and the government believes that if they keep pushing the opposition there would be women there would be no stability in the country. and some news just coming in from syria now activists and rebels say the bodies of sixty five young men have been found on the bank of

a river in the northern syrian city of aleppo i want to warn you that these pictures are very graphic let's take a look for anybody who's interested in what's happening there most of these bodies have their hands tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to their heads the bodies were covered in mud and showed signs of decay now activists say more bodies could still be in the water at the moment there is no information on who carried out the killings we of course will bring you more on this story as and when we get it again the latest pictures out of aleppo where it's very clear that a massacre has taken place meanwhile syria's rebel coalition is in paris to plead for aid and political backing to overthrow the assad regime the opposition needs money to stay viable but its efforts to form a provisional government have so far failed this is france warns islamist militants could gain ground and plunge the country into further chaos if cash flow is not secured archie caught up with one of the leaders of the opposition and asked him

what he thinks needs to be done to bring syria some peace. we need this some new weapons against plays you know because bashar assad's. airplanes to damage villages and cities and their civilians that we need to protect ourselves our children from killing every day we have more then sixteen thousand children were dead for at least twenty two months ago something unbelievable it's a lot right so to help syrian people and to help and syrian crisis you need weapons and money is that is that correct yeah sure sure and we need political support also who can cooperate with a man killed more than sixty thousand people we are concerned but we are

not afraid you know because of major duty of fighter groups in syria is not extremist is not dearest only of fighting for the freedom and dignity and what a loss or a group from iraq are these people fighting for freedom and democracy is why they're fighting for freedom and democracy but maybe we will face some problem with them anyway they are just a smaller part of their evolution is you. but these people are recognized even by french president as extremists and terrorists all over the word you can find extremists but they're not their ear picture only a small part of it please denies that. so you are absolutely sure that you will be able to control them these people you're very sure very sure about that.

with the opposition adamant extremists make up only a small fraction of the armed rebels as we've just heard and will be easy to control historian gerald horne isn't buying into that scenario we are reassured by your guest that if the if the dissidents come to power they'll be able to handle elements for fraud but there will be an dissidents at the same play when they were with nato in two thousand and eleven and toppling colonel gadhafi now they are seeking to do the same thing in syria which suggests that they have not learned even the most recent lessons of history and now we see that in been ghazi which was the cradle of the revolt against gadhafi the north atlantic countries have asked their nationals to sleep in ghazi because resume impending terrorist attacks watched by those they just helped into power so i think we should get with a grain of salt what your guest said in that interview there putting civilians in harm's way by watching attacks from crowded urban communities i was also struck by

the fact that cure guess that he would not be involved in any negotiation with the assad regime the way wars in is the true negotiate with those who are shooting at you and that is how this war should end but if they refuse to negotiate that tends to suggest that this conflict will continue indefinitely. still to come this hour here in our teens seeking shelter and the number of homeless people in britain looks set to rise dramatically with many believing that the new government policies will only further aggravate the situation that story and much more after a break. do

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here with our to live from moscow president barack obama has met with police chiefs from cities in the u.s. where mass shootings have occurred he wants their support for a review of the country's gun control policy now obama's proposal of tougher gun regulations and a ban on assault weapons has divided public opinion with many standing by the constitution second amendment the right to bear arms are going into camp reports. white house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as are amendment that there are a right arms it is a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment to meet heated national debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration

which wants to ever get the constitution but do u.s. lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against an unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause requirement there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was and what it could do to their fourth

amendment rights have you heard about feisal no. no no i'm sorry i think i have some idea that it has to do with our taxes but i don't really know but not surprisingly the same people did have opinions on gun control to keep our guns were pretty pro-gun control right now the government spying bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was. something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates and people were begging the moderators to mention this it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates the constitution may be sicker to many in the us but it seems in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security the deal is pass these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like

dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and their fear mongering begins and shuts down any kind of debate yet we're having a free wheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans as polls show support some regulation on guns gun is dizziness believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the us essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the other both sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment or doing what proposal would or would not be infringe on the people's rights as nasty as they get

sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that heated debate when other liberties were at stake in washington i'm going to check out. on our web site right now while people vent their anger i government codd's greece is finance minister is painting a bright future for the country find out the source of his optimism at archie dot com. our own landmark is about to get a facelift a luxury fashion brand is ready to pour out million. and for restoration go online for all the details. but that icon of brazilian football and maybe heading to colder climes reportedly looks to sign a lucrative contract with a russian football team find out where the two thousand and seven alone darwin are when we had a on our website. a week of pretrial hearings has

kicked off at the infamous us kuantan i'm obey detention camp in the case of the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and his four accomplices among issues in the hearings are the secret overseas cia prisons where the defendants were kept before being taken to guantanamo defense lawyers have asked the judge to order the u.s. government to release documents regarding the cia's alleged role in moving suspects across international borders well antiwar activists are a founder says the agency was using the so-called black sites to evade human rights laws. the reason for their existence is it's part of the u.s. war on terror which is using systematic terror against thousands of innocent people the u.n. report said twenty seven thousand prisoners had been held by the us in secret prisons of course in afghanistan and iraq but country so out the middle east

countries throughout europe and africa. on more than seventeen u.s. ships were secret prisons so this is really part of a vast scale of thousands of people being held without salute lee no rights whatsoever and being subject to horrendous torture originally the u.s. claim they could hold prisoners outside the u.s. because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions and to international law and humanitarian law which in their twisted thinking they said existed only within the u.s. so the idea of holding prisoners around the world in secret detention was they were there for again according to this twisted logic and new to any international law human rights law or conventions that the u.s. had signed. twenty people have reportedly been killed in a plane crash in conflicts down a plane carrying five crew and fifteen passengers went down near the city of buddy

in the country's south after one pm local time reports say there are no survivors the challenger two hundred operated by a cause that company's got was performing an internal fight and crashed while trying to land in harsh weather conditions the company says it will reveal the cause of the crash after the flight recorders are recovered rescue and investigators are working at the scene. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's take a look around the globe at some world news in brief for you now are a suicide bomber has blown himself up inside somalia's presidential palace in mogadishu killing two people and injuring three others the attacker detonated his explosives outside the main gate of the residence after being stopped by guards for questioning the president was out of the country at the time of the attack. in belgium police have just burst thousands of steel workers with water cannon they're

protesting against the planned closure of a coal plant and six production lines which could lead to the loss of thirteen hundred jobs the firm which announced the plants along with other steel companies face a lack of demand for steel and iron ore this is potentially another blow for belgian workers after the recent announcement of ford car factory will shut down. britain which was once proud of having some of the most effective legislation in the world to fend off homelessness now has over fifty thousand people sleeping rough and with the government ushering in public sector spending cuts in an attempt to battle the country's financial troubles the number of homeless people is expected to rise archies polly boyko went to meet some of those living on the streets it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's no. money in your pocket this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to birmingham the case capital homelessness. remember.

she should draw breath from water on what to eat. what. you shouldn't be home or there's a lot of people you call where short ordered be rock car park with people. all over the place. this is why god cares very. yes. michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't know who could give you pocket so you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw. for. the cold this is stupid specially this

time we had to go for four days on the phone to eat twenty one year old matt fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a birmingham hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the don't know like job and from the moment trying to get it's time you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in the now to foster care he struggled to keep a roof over his head you got to do whatever it takes to find somewhere to stay found money. help and support the scariest thing like you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presented as homeless having

creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in birmingham there are people that don't have working and i suppose with it being such a one time many industrialized center working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breaking the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population's expanding the housing stock isn't going to reach that point where it's true spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate

prole many more britons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates probably boyko r t birmingham. i mean next the spotlight's on the job crisis with al gore no talking to the head of the international labor organisation they would. be fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four were thugs come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop

it was sunny had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. today. these are the. three. operations.

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